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Announced on July 22nd, 2005 Released on January 30, 200, Microsoft Vista’s “Aero” has most high end computers looking quite fancy. It’s quite the eye candy.

So, I wanted to install Vista on my computer. Here’s a brief description of this past Monday:

1. Backup needed files from C: to D:
2. Pop in Vista Ultimate
3. Install for 50 minutes, sometimes looking locked up
4. Get all Windows updates and drivers installed.
5. Find out that my video drivers are just plain shitty.
6. Spend 45 Minutes installing Windows XP
7. Spend 2+Hours running Windows Updates
8. Restore all software again.

In all, once the annoyances on Vista are disabled, Vista with Aero is hot.

Then, I see this video:

After watching that video I think to myself: “I spend all that money on Windows Vista Ultimate; A product in development for almost 2 years… and then something 100x better comes up from nowhere… free and opensource.”

In closing, I must say that Beryl takes the cake here. What do you think?

For those that don’t know what second life is, I’ll sum it all up in three words. A second life. Yes, it is literally a virtual life that you live out online. The developer of Second Life, Linden Labs defines second life on their website

Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 5,853,742 people from around the globe.

So you ask, why are you writing about this on here? The answer isn’t all that easy to give. While the grid is down for maintenance, Linden Labs has created a “Free For All” blog entry, where people are able to post what they want in the comment section. Over the next few hours that the grid is down, I’ll be adding “Stupid” or “Idiotic” posts to my blog, so that you might get a good laugh.

So, here we go!

blah Says: cant you’s please work in american late time(when im sleeping) sometime its not fair when i have to wait SIX hours :((((
Yes, Linden Labs will schedule their massive grid update around your sleepy time… Get real! If you are satisfied that means that bleh or blih woud be pissy like you are now! Anytime is a bad time, so just cope with it!

Kiki Masala Says: I need rehab during down time
You need rehab because of the downtime, or because of the crazy shit that you do in SL?

blah Says: I’m not asking for it all the time but every single time it effects Europeans take it in turns
Linden Labs is not going to have their full staff come in at wee hours of the AM and pay them time and a half to install updates for 6 hours. Nice try.

sterling Whitcroft Says: Can you fix that Blog Thingee on the bottom left column? Its clearly not proper LSL code.
Bend over, I’ll fix the thingee.

kellie babii Says: COME ONNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM BORED :p
I couldn’t guess. I’m glad that you occupied some of your down time by holding down the fucking exclamation key!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blastar Seymour Says: I hope they also fix my account because my account have been disablen two days now WITH NO REASON !!. ans I haven no respond since then. I AM DEAD WITH NO REASON !!!. D**n it !. I wonder what the support center is doing..???
Clearly the support center is kicked back in their easy chairs lauging at Blastar Seymour being dead. I know I am!

rush gastel Says: is it ready yet
… Yes. If you can’t login, try reformatting windows.

Ziffle Babblebrobs Says: i have a fever and the only thing thats going to cure it is more cowbell.
LOL! That’s a good one right there!

I’m sure I’ll be adding more as the day goes on… There’s so many idiots! I love it!

I’ve been hard at work on getting this Gungame AMXX server online for UFIGaming.net. The forums will display statistics from the game server. Sends and receives data from the game server every 3 hours. The possibilities with this are really open.

- UFI Forums and CS Game Server integrated to sync Steam ID’s
- CS Game Server gives special abilities depending on forum groups

This could become a large project.

These days the eMule network is under attack by companies that want to ruin it The RIAA, MPAA, and virus spreaders are among the people that want to ruin your P2P experience. Keeping your server list up to date, and free of fake servers is the best method for you to avoid these fake files.

Luckily eMule has the tools built in for you to avoid these rogue servers!

1. Load eMule. Make sure that you are not connected to any servers or the Kad network. Go to the servers screen, click on one, press control+a to select them all. Hit the delete key to remove all of the servers.

2. Click options and go to the server options page. Uncheck the “Update server list when connecting to a server” and “Update server list when a client connects” boxes. Set the number of failed retries to 10 and enable the “Auto-update server list at start up” option, click the “List…” button and in the text file that opens paste this link: http://ocbmaurice.no-ip.org/pl/slist.pl/server.met?download/server-best.met. Save the text file and close it.

3. eMule has a built in IP filter it just needs the user to supply the list of IP’s to block. Go to the “Security” section in the options screen, in the “IP Filter” enable the “Filter servers too” option and paste this link in the “Update from URL” box: http://emulepawcio.sourceforge.net/ipfilter.zip Then click on the “Load” button and let eMule download the updated IP address list. Try to remember to manually update the ipfilter weekly.

4. Restart eMule.

Following those steps you can avoid fake servers and files.